all-sustaining

Dividing the universe into “designed” and “not special enough to consider designed” implicity denies theologically the all-source, all-sustaining acknowledgement of the Creator.

Intelligent Design and Miracles - The Panda's Thumb 2005

God is no mere spectator of the universe He has made, but is everywhere present and active, the all-sustaining ground, and all-governing power of all that is.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

God Himself, potent and responsive at every point of his realm, -- that all-pervading, all-embracing, all-sustaining Life of

The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

But thanks to a kind and all-sustaining Providence, complete success has at last crowned my exertions.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

And finally, the sense of continuous life -- one central, all-sustaining

Mysticism in English Literature Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 1905

Their all-sustaining conceit gave them abundant assurance that their movements must necessarily be all-pleasing to the celestials whose ears were open to the proceedings of the World's Convention.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

They bade her be strong and of good courage: is not that the all-sustaining, all-delusive message for every martyr?

Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

The minister pleaded with those who listened to him to lean wholly upon this all-sustaining, all-forgiving love; to believe that it sheltered both the living and the dead, and to trust, simply, as a little child.

Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892

Then it was that his executive ability was pre-eminent and became all-sustaining to the people.

Virginia and Virginians 1888

It is very gracious and mindful of Him thus gently to compel us to remember Him and to hold us so close to Him that we cannot get away even the length of a single minute from His all-sustaining arm.

Days of Heaven Upon Earth 1881